Paddington

PD Day matinee!

“Author Michael Bond’s unfailingly polite, marmalade-munching English teddy from Darkest Peru—gets a gloriously whimsical big-screen debut that’s closer to the madcap spirit of the Muppets and the lovingly rendered style of a Wes Anderson film than to standard multiplex family fodder.

“The storybook bear’s tale remains largely intact: After enduring hardship in Peru, our red-bowler-topped hero stows away to London, where he is taken in by the Browns. He soon bumbles comically through the trappings of everyday human life.